The businessman described the Elections Department’s decision to find him ineligible to contest as a ‘setback for Singapore’ He had been the first to throw his hat in the ring, casting himself as the …
Singapore Approves Three Presidential Contenders. Here’s Who They Are.
(Bloomberg) — Singapore will head for its first contested presidential … He also said his long experience in the finance sector positions him well to safeguard the national reserves. Having spent …
Singapore is a success. Why reinvent it?
Tensions also built during the pandemic and the deep recession that Covid-19 wrought in 2020. Lawrence Wong, the finance minister who is likely to be Singapore’s next prime minister, conceded the …
Singapore Exchange Increases its Annual Dividend to S$0.34: 5 Highlights from the Bourse Operator’s Full-Year Earnings
It may be a dry season for initial public offerings (IPOs), but it has not stopped Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX: S68), or SGX, from reporting a strong set of earnings. The bourse operator recently …
Singapore Police Seizes $1 Billion Haul after Massive Raid| Vantage with Palki Sharma
Singapore Police Seizes $1 Billion Haul after Massive Raid| Vantage with Palki SharmaSingaporean police officials seized cars, cash & property worth about 1 billion Singaporean dollars, or about 740 …
Who are the 10 foreigners arrested in Singapore’s massive S$1 billion money laundering crackdown?
Police raided Good Class Bungalows and prime area condominiums among other locations, and seized assets including cars, watches, handbags and cash.
Commentary: Should Singapore look beyond a balanced budget to ensure we will always have enough in our reserves?
The Singapore government is constitutionally obliged to achieve a balanced budget over its term of office. What about targeting a net surplus instead, ask Eddie Choo and Gillian Koh from the Institute …
Singapore needs an independent president to avoid ‘real danger of groupthink’: George Goh
Goh said that while Ong was Deputy Prime Minister, he was never “immersed” in financial policy making, be it with the Ministry of Finance, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Temasek or GIC. Also, as …
Singapore needs an independent president to avoid ‘real danger of groupthink’: George Goh
Goh said that while Ong was Deputy Prime Minister, he was never “immersed” in financial policy making, be it with the Ministry of Finance, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Temasek or GIC. Also, as …
How Singapore wrestles with the constraints of success
How much talk about reinvention does one of the world’s most successful, if tiny, economies have to listen to?